Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community.

The biological agents we believe Iraq can produce include anthrax, botulinum, toxin, aflatoxin and ricin. All eventually result in excruciatingly painful death.

Any action taken will be against the terrorist network of Bin Laden.... As for the Taleban, they can surrender the terrorists or face the consequences - and again in any action the aim will be to eliminate their military hardware, cut off their finances, disrupt their supplies, target their troops, not civilians.

We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver.

People should go about their daily lives, to work, to live, to travel, to shop, to do the things people did in the same way as they did them before 11 September.